Monday, May 2, 2016

Moms of LBGTQ Children Sharing

I previously mentioned that I'm in a few private Facebook groups for parents of transgender kids. One of those groups called "Serendipitydodah for Moms" 1000+ Christian moms of LBGTQ kids (and those kids ages range from elementary school to adult children). This group is such a loving group and the group admin, Liz Dyer, invites guests into the group for a few days to allow the group to have an online Q&A.

A few times Pastor John Pavlovitz has been the guest. He's a fully affirming pastor in Raleigh, North Carolina. By "affirming," I mean that he's accepting of LBGTQ folks in the church and does not think they are sinners. If you're interested, you can follow John Pavlovitz on Facebook.

He was in the group again recently and he created a blog post out of the responses from the moms when he asked us "What is the greatest/most important thing you've learned since beginning this journey with your child(ren)?"

Welcome to my Journey

I am not a writer. I am an executive (who has a social worker's heart!) and a wife who happens to have a CIS son and a transgender son. Along with helping me digest my thoughts, I simply hope this helps some other parents out there who are on a similar journey. If your world is similar to mine, I'd love for you to comment and share! (Side note - I write on topics when I think about them so these posts are not exactly in chronological order! You may read about some of my recent experiences and then...BAM!...you'll read about experiences from a few years ago!)